Lawyers claim NRL failed Jack de Belin in anti-violence education

The National Rugby League's season is underway, but the controversies that marred its summer are still simmering.

Jack de Belin's case against the league's governing bodies drew to a controversial close, with a lawyer saying that the NRL had failed the St George Illawarra player on education about sexual violence.

The comments have provoked an outcry from women involved with rugby league, who say that its education programs are some of the most rigorous in any sport.

Todd Greenberg uses an example close to home to outline how the alleged misconduct of some male stars turns women off the game as part of Jack De Belin's Federal Court challenge of the NRL's new no-fault stand down policy.